[MD] Plains Talk and Pragmatism

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Hi Ron,

Picking the best is a good way to approach it.  Some prefer existentialism
others find it to promote meaninglessness.  Some find empiricism to be
materialistic or limited, others glorify in it as free will and
understanding.

My understanding of Theism from personal conversations from the Christian
side, is that it provides: meaning, purpose, morality, common purpose, a
sense of security, a personal sense of responsibility and morals, a possible
afterlife, a possibility of atonement in this life, forgiveness, redemption,
and the possibility of miracles. These sound like a lot of quality reasons
to choose it.  It could be considered lying to oneself whatever position one
takes.

What would be the reasons to choose anti-theism or atheism besides a
self-centered notion of knowing?  In the end we really are talking about
choice I believe.

Mark

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:55 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

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> "  Is the MoQ, absolutely anti-theistic?"
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> Ron:
> Any sort of theism enters into a rationalist arguement.
> MoQ is empirical for the most part, but it is interesting
> how it places experience before concepts yet terms
> experience as synonomous
> with the concept of betterness.
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> Yet the concept of betterness seems to be superior,
> and for several reasons, first of all there is alot of
>  baggage associated with the term "god" that has
> little to do with the expansion of reason. It causes
> confusion about the central philosophic aims.
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> Second, it's metaphysical structure places dynamic
> Quality before the concepts of God or Quality, making
> even the question of theism moot.
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> Being radically empirical, MoQ picks the best from theism.
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> it's about picking the best out of anything.
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> So give a thought as to your reasons
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